Virginia Postrel Quotes

Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

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I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Megan Fox

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If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with somebody who has the ambition to play in the NBA. I watch a basketball game; I enjoy it. Somebody who really wants to learn to play is studying whatever is most magnificent that's going on out there.

Robert Pinsky

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Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.

Matt Stone

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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

Stephen Fry

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We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

Steven Pinker

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A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.

Mary Roach

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The most useful information on CNN is when Anthony Bourdain tells me where to eat noodles.

Michelle Wolf

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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Jonathan Swift

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I'd like young girls to be able to listen to my music and take something positive away from it.

Jorja Smith

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While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

Craig Kelly

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It's very, very difficult because we're living in a world where they invent things in order to hide things from parents. There are these secret creator app guys who make things to intentionally do that, to keep your parents in the dark, and you've really got to work extra-hard to stay on top of it.

Christian Slater

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I guess a lot of people don't like talking.

Brendon Urie

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